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They met almost above me, and I could see them hovering with clasped hands while they touched cheeks in affectionate greeting. Then, releasing each other, they flew rapidly away together smaller and smaller, until a turn in the valley hid them entirely from my sight. I sat down abruptly. A lump was in my throat, a dismal lonesomeness in my heart.
In fact, a war party of Arickaras had been hovering on their trail for several days, watching with the patience and perseverance of Indians, for some moment of negligence and fancied security, to make a successful swoop. The two spies had evidently been sent into the camp to create a diversion, while their confederates carried off the spoil.
A rain-storm broke the fog a cold, raw, miserable rain. It is a muddy, dreary nest up here, among the dripping willows. We were a sorry-looking party, at lunch this noon, hovering over the smoking stove which was set in the tent door, with a wind-screen in front, and moist bedding hung all about in the vain hope of drying it in the feeble heat.
"You certainly would look nicer, and more like the owner of The Dales, if you got into your other coat," said Briar. "Shall we all come up and help you, Padre?" called out the eight in a breath. "No, no, dears. I object to ladies hovering about my room. I'll run away now." "Yes, yes; and you'd better be quick, Padre, for I hear wheels." "I am going, loves, this moment." Mr.
Silvernail had a way of being always about the doors of the rooms, and a faculty, as I thought, of hovering near several of them at one and the same moment. There are men who will turn the least promising circumstance to advantage, even that of being listened at through a keyhole, while they discourse to themselves about affairs connected with their most cherished and secret designs.
Even in Charlemagne's time the black-sailed ships of the Northmen had been seen hovering along the coast near the mouth of the Seine, and it has been said that the great Emperor wept at the sight of some of these awe-inspiring pirates.
Was some flitting, hovering thought like this part of the Temptation in the Wild? Is that what Mark means when he says so significantly that 'He was with the wild beasts'? Surely; for He was tempted in all points like as we are, and we have all been tempted in this. 'Good old Carlo! we have said, as we patted the dog's head, looking down out of our eyes of anguish into his calm, impassive gaze.
A day or two after the arrival of the fleet at Alexandria, it became known that several persons belonging to the rebel secret service were hovering about in the vicinity of the village, with the intention of destroying some of the vessels by torpedoes contrivances made to resemble pieces of coal which were to be placed in those barges out of which the boats were supplied with fuel.
Eva Ortlieb had been borne home from the ball in her sedan chair with a happy smile hovering round her fresh young lips. It still lingered there when she found her sister in their chamber, sitting at the spinning wheel.
Then she stood facing him, waiting. "You understand," she cried hysterically, "that when your hand touches that door I'm going to shoot myself. I will, so help me God!" He halted and looked back at her, a covert smile of contempt hovering about his mouth. "Kill yourself before me!" he exclaimed ironically. "You'll wait a minute, won't you?" Returning to the inner room, he called out: "Annie!
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